Improvement in bag-holders



n. A. ausmean.

Bag-Holders.

No."i43,897.

AM Moro-mummy: w. MX/monm-S mums) ITED STATES PATENT QFFIGE,

NEWTON A. GEISINGER, OF OOOPERSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN BAG-HOLDERS.

Specification forming part of'Letters Patent No. 141E897, dated October 21, 1873; application filed July 2.2, 1873.

by bolting the bar I) to the latter, as shown in the perspective mew of the accompanying drawing I The truck is composed of two handled arms, at and 61, connected together by cross-bars e c, and by an axle, f, which is furnished with the usual wheels M, and to which is secured a I platform, D, the latter, when the truck is elevated, as shown in the drawing, bearing on the ground, and serving as a platform for supporting the sack, the mouth of which is held and distended by arms a and a, havin g sharp points 122 m for penetrating the fabric. These arms are hinged one to each end of a bar, 19, which forms a part of the slide B, so adapted to a bar, I), that it can be adjusted thereon to suit the height of the sack, and secured after adjustment by a set-screw, q. To the arm a is jointed a bar, t, which is also connected to the arm a by a set-screw, a, passing into the arm through an elongated slot in the bar, so that the two arms may be adjusted nearer to or farther from each other, as the requirements of the sack may demand.

I claim as my invention The bag-holder, consisting of the bar b,s1ide B, and hinged and adjustable arms a a, constructed and adapted for application to a truck, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

NEWTON A. GEISINGER.

Witnesses:

JAMEs J. G-nrsrnenn, J os. K. FUNK. 

